Category Cape Trip 2020
Cape Trip day 8 – Cape Town Skyline Traverse
After 7 days, the final Saturday of my trip to the Western Cape had arrived. The plan for the day was simple – Cape Town has one of the most famous mountain skylines, with three distinct peaks. So naturally one has to start on the outer ridge of one peak, hike across all three and […]
Cape Trip days 6 and 7 – rest days
After the Hex Traverse, I took a long scenic drive through to Betty’s Bay. It rained for a lot of the drive – which is unusual in November. I had been planning on climbing Hangklip in the morning, so seeing as I had arrived early, I decided to take a drive. After 5 continuous days […]
Cape Trip Days 3 to 5 – Hex Traverse
When I was little, we used to have a box of tapes and accompanying books with the full text, I guess it would be called an audiobook today, although I don’t think the term was used at the time. The stories ranged from full fiction, such as Grogre the Ogre, to South African heroic history […]
Cape Trip day 2 – Matroosberg
Only a few weeks after hearing about its existence, suddenly my plan for the day was to climb Matroosberg. After a very successful day 1 of my Cape Trip, I decided to have a relatively easy day 2. Matroosberg is the 3rd most prominent mountain in South Africa, although my research had told me it […]
Cape Trip day 1 – Du Toit’s Peak
Du Toit’s Peak – SA’s most prominent mountain. What a spectacular and epic hike this was!
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